Residents of the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka, in the Donetsk region controlled by Ukrainian forces, carry boxes containing Red Cross humanitarian aid. One soldier has been killed in east Ukraine, but a shaky 2-week-old ceasefire between the government and pro-Russia separatists was still largely holding, the army said.

A mortar round sticks out of the ground as a car passes a destroyed tank at a former Ukrainian army checkpoint that was overran last month by Russia-backed separatists during the offensive for Debaltseve, outside the city of Chornukhyne, Ukraine.

A student protester lies on a monastery floor after police surrounded the monastery apparently to prevent a protest march to Yangon from Letpadan, Myanmar, to protest a new law that students say will curb academic freedom.

Pakistani children jostle to receive free food distributed at the shrine of Sufi saint Barri Imam in the suburbs of Islamabad, Pakistan. Hundreds of poor and homeless people receive food from different shrines in Pakistan.

Pictures in the News | March 2, 2015

Monday’s Pictures in the News begins in the skid row area of downtown Los Angeles, where a man places a cardboard sign at the site of a deadly officer-involved shooting that claimed the life of a homeless man.